Microsoft Software Engineer - Internship interview questions
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I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Applied through on campus career fair. Got an interview after a week or so. Interviewed on campus. It was mainly just technical. Have been still waiting on the result of the interview.
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Question 1
Asked about reversing each word in a sentence, and asked about the runtime
I applied through college or university. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Sep 2017
Interview
The process was pretty standard, there was a phone screen followed by an onsite interview, i had 4 interview in total, 3 technical and 1 behavioral. There were 2 medium difficulty questions and 1 easy. I was interviewed for the Azure team.
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Question 1
Typical behavioral, linked list, recursion related questions
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Orlando, FL) in Sep 2017
Interview
I received an e-mail offering an interview after participating in Microsoft's College Code Competition. I scheduled an on-campus interview for about a week later. It was a 30 minute one-on-one interview.